Monastic settlements are areas built up in and around the development of monasteries with the spread of Christianity. To understand Christian monastic...

The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region...

prison or police station where a prisoner is held Skete – Type of monastic settlement Therapeutae – Religious sect Cell at Merriam Websters Dictionary...

seals. The island is of special interest to archaeologists, as the monastic settlement is in unusually good condition. The monastery is situated at an elevation...

valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin. From 1825 to 1957, the head...

harbours in the world. Cork was founded in the 6th century as a monastic settlement, and was expanded by Viking invaders around 915. Its charter was...

the mid-7th and 9th centuries the site was possibly occupied by a monastic settlement, and in the 11th and 12th centuries a Norman motte and bailey castle...

(Irish: Mainistir Bhuithe) ruins are the remains of an early Christian monastic settlement in County Louth in Ireland, north of Drogheda. The ruins are a national...

arrived in Iceland. There is some archaeological evidence for a monastic settlement from Ireland at Kverkarhellir cave, on the Seljaland farm in southern...

crosses indicates a high likelihood of there having been a former monastic settlement onsite. On the north side of the present church stands the better...

2022-06-09. Stewart, Columba (2011-03-07). "Evagrius Ponticus and the Eastern Monastic Tradition on the Intellect and the Passions". Modern Theology. 27 (2):...

bridges still in use over the River Shannon, completed in 1757. The monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise is approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) upriver. Shannonbridge...

acres (42 ha) in Cork Harbour, Ireland. Originally the site of a monastic settlement, the island is dominated by an 18th-century bastion fort now named...

respective Christian denominations that have forms of monastic living. Those living the monastic life are known by the generic terms monks (men) and nuns...

Ballywiheen, containing an ancient stone fort and monastic settlement Kilmalkedar, monastic settlement with Ogham stone Ferriter's Cove, at the western...

sometime after AD 824, though survived for a thousand years as a monastic settlement (becoming part of the Augustinian Order in 1135), until the dissolution...

Lindisfarne is invariably used when referring to the pre-conquest monastic settlement, the priory ruins and the castle. The combined phrase "the Holy Island...

as a missionary in northern Hesse, where in 736 he established a monastic settlement in Haerulfisfeld (Hersfeld). Ordained in 740 as priest in Fritzlar...

Laraghbryan (Irish: Láithreach Briúin) is the site of an old monastic settlement, cemetery and ruined church, 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) west of Maynooth, County...

Following Henry's split with the church, the Tudors heralded the end of monastic Meath. Church Lands which comprised roughly one-third of the county were...

6th century and the 11th century, Derry was known primarily as a monastic settlement. The town became strategically more significant during the Tudor...

was the site of a monastic settlement from at least the 8th century, which became one of medieval Ireland's more important monastic centres. Up to the...

Zofingen is a walled city and home of an ancient monastic settlement. In ancient times Zofingen was a settlement of the Celtic Helvetii. In later times the...

mistakenly assign County Laois as the location of this particular monastic settlement due to the presence of a larger town in Laois called Durrow.[citation...

A skete (/ˈskiːt/) is a monastic community in Eastern Christianity that allows relative isolation for monks, but also allows for communal services and...

Beaubec Monastery was a 13th-century monastic settlement and farm, to the south of Drogheda, in the townland of Beamore in County Meath, Ireland. Little...

cleric of Greek descent, Theodore I, as the 73rd pope of Rome. A monastic settlement is founded in Hampshire (England) which later becomes Winchester...

the De Ross family, can be seen from the stone. The history of the monastic settlement and the chapel of Saint Mary (NS 4080 5032) at the Thurgartstone...

emigrants. Mullinalap Monastic Settlement: This early Christian settlement is located on the site of an older Celtic settlement. Pilgrims from across...

across the Channel. The modern Saint-Malo traces its origins to a monastic settlement founded by Saint Aaron and Saint Brendan early in the sixth century...